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“He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place.”

Long Fighting Next Lines Rounds Corners Chairs Whips Long Lines Whipping Whip It

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

“I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.”

Thinking Trying Mind Two Ends Feelings Loneliness Figures Like You Fine Solitude Lonely Rounds Mood Two Things Alright Life Death Morbid Lonliness

Author:Jonathan Ames

“AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.”

Waiting Break Bed Judgment Fairs Rounds Noise Excellent Awe Yellow Sunrise Pillow Mattresses

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.”

Earth Rounds Tickets

Book:The Gift: A Novel

Source: The Gift: A Novel

“The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.”

Years Bigs Grows Hours Feet Minutes Century Wind Huge Fine Cold Machines Towns Rounds Shoes Size Bones Flesh Tiny Weather Dust Clock Shakes Grain Blanket Monstrous Wrinkles Pollen Turnips Cold Wind

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.”

Knows World Mean Littles Said Hands This World Rounds Scratches Grease Yossarian

Book:Catch-22: A Novel

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!”

Running Towns Bottom Rounds Nurse Somewhere Else Halfway Stairs Nursery Funny Thoughts

Book:Pooh to Grow on

Source: Pooh to Grow on

“He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.”

Needs Stills Subjects Missing Fronts Youth Cameras Rounds Teeth Expensive Thick Bangs Shutters Pictures Of Myself Favorite Subject

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”

World Different Seems Lasts Evil Views Attitude Struggle Journey Victory Regard Rounds Point Of View Noble Admire Wilderness Spares Commonplace Sprung

Author:Marcel Proust

“I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.”

Trying Night Tired Rounds Infinity All Night Up All Night

Author:Steven Wright

“What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.”

Years Wells Heart Said Sometimes Moments Home Happens Night Sides Steps Heard My Heart Harmony Distance Notes Rounds Myth Silver Gates That Moment Professors Day And Night

Author:Michael Ende

“It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.”

World Matter Might Universe Pleasure Cry Rounds Glasses Convinced Wounded Ephemeral Spun Axes

Author:Stephen King

“Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?”

“To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.”

“Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.”

World Should Whole Fall Nature Break Rounds Confusion Ruins Secure Cracks Confusing Unconcerned

Author:Joseph Addison

“Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.”

World Needs Persons Moving Fall Love Is Mountain Rounds Falling Apart Single Person Move Mountains

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”

Earth Imagine Sky Wind Quiet Rounds Breathing Grass Bells Slumber Benign Moths Hares Fluttering Sleepers

Author:Emily Bronte

“If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.”

Ifs Men Looks Soul Would Be Lost Left Sides Path Middle Garden Lays Rounds Corners Neighbor Originality Fence Lawns

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'”

Knows Firsts Made Play Past Guy Song Know How Months Rounds Made It Idols Auditions Triangles American Idol

Author:Malin Akerman

“O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you”

Heart Eye Choices Gone My Heart Findings Remains Rounds Guides Winding Road

Author:Rumi

“... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-”

Men Said Lasts Law Bits Growth Heard Conditions Creation Type Creatures Capable Fairs Raises Rounds Lips Titles Loud Appropriate Preaching Sweetness Orange Clockwork

Author:Anthony Burgess

“The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons?”

Knows Said Bigs Earth Mother Father Laughing Mouths Rounds Lips Caught Do You Know Growling

Book:The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.”

Men Years Humans Wells Made Hard Enough Effort Personality Cost Illusion Hundred Yoga India West Rounds Ancient Technique Buddhist Thread Texture Merry Onions Merry Go Round Unmasking

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.”

Thinking War Happens Earth Pain Joy Water Four Nice Rocks Victory Drama Abuse Twenties Seven Rounds Ugly Sickness Sand Polish Grind Erode Gravel

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.”

Littles Long Suffering Dies Voice Stupid Rounds Careful Selfish Absurd Command Beloved Rejoice Mania Selfish Love Grimace Stupid Life

Author:W. H. Auden

“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.”

Done Waiting Rounds Heroism

Book:Lost World

Source: Lost World

“...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.”

Knows Men World Heart May Lying Desire Break Alive Wonderful Land Adventure Sight Rewards Rounds Twilight Heroism Venture Mystic Great Adventure Great Reward

Book:The Lost World: Sherlock Holmes Collections

Source: The Lost World: Sherlock Holmes Collections

“And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.”

“Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

Humans Looks Has Beens Stills Seems Universe Asks Causes Enemy Danger Letters Rounds Deceived Forsaken Screwtape Letters Wormwood

Book:The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.”

Said Might Lasts Social Known Week My Friends Rounds Complaining Yesterday Bother Spokes Rabbits Winnie The Pooh Friend

Book:Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again.”

Said Whole Cutting Fronts Lows Dresses Rounds Grinning Tiaras Auntie Ginny Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.”

Want Asks Sleep Doors Rounds

Author:Rumi

“Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.”

Ifs World Looks Littles Doe Names Bits Answers Perfect Compassion Tree Feet Wall Balance Little Bit Rounds Philosopher Clue Ants Oaks Oak Tree

Author:Robin McKinley

“I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.”

World Years Light Night Time Hours Saws Pure Shadow Eternity Moved Train Rounds Calm Driven Rings Endless Spheres

Book:A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

“The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.”

Ends Earth Speak Walks Poor Path Pieces Dying Emotional Wall Garden Rounds Commit Meals Boredom Infant Exquisite Silk Breeding Parades Robes Filthy Sturdy Anaemia

Author:Ezra Pound

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”

Writing Existence Darkness Rounds Rings Smoke

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.”

People Ifs Knows Want Said Bigs Life Is Rain Down And Series Rounds Philosopher Corners Pairs Do You Know Climbing Rainbow Trough

Author:Ricky Gervais

“The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.”

World Children Remember Father Imagination Discovery Rounds Orange August Devastated Solemnity Wraith World Is Round

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.”

World Rounds

Author:Jim Benton

“Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.”

“They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.”

World Light Earth Young Night Stars Dark Heard Figures Cold Thousand Ten Rounds Bells Thieves Electric Bores Glowing Orchard All The Pretty Horses

Book:All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life.”

Mind Faces Found Difficult Forget Struggle Bears Easier Singing Bird Universal Rounds Seeds Conclusion Destroying Insects Gladness

Author:Charles Darwin

“Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground.”

“I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.”

“Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.”

World Humans Heart May Enough Shows Dream Eye Night Dies Vision Wind Rounds Blow Welcome Mortals Dawn Insult Feds Bless Midnight Noon Knocking Involuntary Human Love

Author:W. H. Auden

“The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.”

Heart Long Mother Sleep Sea Tears Rounds Broke Long Ago Orchard Nightingales Sobbing Overboard

Author:W. H. Auden

“It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.”

Two Running Girl Rounds Rope Giggle Tow

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”

Ifs Inspirational Art Made Book Motivational Faces Form Winning Fantasy Offers Rounds Rings League Boxing Fifteen

Book:The Polysyllabic Spree

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

“It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.”

Made Felt Darkness Like You Wall Rounds Heavy Breathe Compelling

Author:Jean Rhys

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